Storybook: Unclear documentation for storyKindRegex and "story kinds"

[worc]

What is a "story kind"? I'm trying to work with the storyKindRegex, but I'm not finding any documentation on what a story kind _is_. Is it a reference to a file name? File extension? Something to do with the component type? The storybook entry strings?

[shilman]

Story kind is the first arg to storiesOf. In the following, the kind is MyComponent:

storiesOf('MyComponent', module).add(...)

storyKindRegex is a way to only include certain kinds ("components") in your snapshot tests.

[holmesal]

How can we exclude individual stories by name?

[sergej-s]

@holmesal It seems that adding storyNameRegex along with storyKindRegex does work:

storyKindRegex: /^MyComponent$/,
storyNameRegex: /^((?!.*?DontTest).)*$/,

storiesOf('MyComponent', module)
  .add(`Playground (DontTest)`, () => {
     ...

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